{"id":1490953,"date":"2022-05-25T07:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490953"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:08:21","slug":"betsy-devos-comes-forward-with-gross-interactions-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-devos-comes-forward-with-gross-interactions-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy DeVos Comes Forward With \u201cGross\u201d Interactions With Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbetsy-devos-comes-forward-with-gross-interactions-with-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ex-Vice President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden,<\/a> who has a well-established practice of close encounters with women many describe as creepy, allegedly attempted to \u201cintimidate\u201d former Trump-era Education Secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/betsy-devos\">Betsy DeVos<\/a> when she was stuck in a wheelchair following a bicycle accident in late 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, DeVos claimed that Biden bent over, put his hands on her shoulders, pressed his forehead to hers, and \u201clingered\u201d as she tried to roll back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was gross, and it was also a feeble attempt to intimidate me,\u201d DeVos wrote in her Center Street Publishing book about her days as former President Donald Trump\u2019s education secretary and how she fought \u201cwoke\u201d schooling forces. The book debuts on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive excerpt from <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hostages-No-More-Education-American\/dp\/1546002014\">Hostages No More: The Fight For Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child<\/a><\/i> provided to Secrets, DeVos said Biden approached her after she <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6628755\/Betsy-DeVos-wheeled-stage-revealing-spend-three-months-wheelchair.html\">finished a speech<\/a> to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in January 2019, which Biden also spoke to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><source data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n                Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos leaves the stage on a wheelchair after speaking during the U.S. Conference of Mayors&#8217;s annual winter meeting in Washington on Jan. 24, 2019. Her aide Sarah Delahunty is pushing the chair.<br \/>\n               <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">\n                (Jose Luis Magana\/AP)\n               <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the time, she was building support for \u201cEducation Freedom Scholarships,\u201d and the annual conference offered time to make her case.<\/p>\n<p>After DeVos spoke, her assistant wheeled her to a holding area that Biden entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe must have heard about my accident because he came directly up to me. \u2018How are you doing?\u2019 he asked,\u201d DeVos recalled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"left\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" \/><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><source data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" alt=\"41quYU+l1iL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/25070651\/90-141 1x, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/90-142-scaled.jpg 2x\" width=\"1060\" height=\"1588\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/25070651\/90-141\" \/><\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Biden then asked, \u201c\u2018Do you have any hardware?\u2019 I told him I had a very fine three-inch screw as the result of my accident,\u201d wrote DeVos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, this casual encounter turned into something totally unexpected and uncomfortable. Biden leaned down, put his hands on my shoulders, and pressed his forehead to mine. He lingered. As I tried to figure out how I could roll the wheelchair and myself away, he said, \u2018I have nine screws in my shoulder. But everyone thinks they\u2019re in my head,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden left, her aide asked if the two were good friends. DeVos\u2019s answer was a surprise. The two had never met before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Well, that was gross,'&#8221; Delahunty told DeVos, who wrote, \u201cYes, it was gross, and it was also a feeble attempt to intimidate me. I think about that encounter every time I hear Biden talk about dismantling our reforms of Title IX.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n             [embedded content]\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During his 2020 presidential campaign, eight women accused Biden of inappropriate behavior or worse. He has been captured in several photos caressing women\u2019s shoulders and sniffing their hair but denied any ill intentions.<\/p>\n<p>As president, he has been dubbed \u201ccreepy Joe\u201d for sometimes whispering into the presidential microphone and talking about <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9631457\/Creepy-Joe-Biden-slammed-remarks-elementary-school-aged-girl.html\">young girls.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Vice President Joe Biden, who has a well-established practice of close encounters with women many describe as creepy, allegedly attempted to \u201cintimidate\u201d former Trump-era<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1490993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}